Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Large rosette sampler used in the "World Ocean Circulation Experiment". This rosette has 36 10-liter Niskin bottles, an acoustic pinger (lower left), an "LADCP" current profiler (yellow long tube at the center), a CTD (horizontal instrument at the bottom), and transmissometer (yellow short tube at the center). (Photo : L. Talley)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatoms - Life in glass houses
Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.
The research vessel "James COOK"
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Carte bathymétrique mondiale
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Gelatinous plankton Mneniopsis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Colony of diatoms genus Bacillaria whose single cells slide against each other (Video : Sophie Marro)
Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)